Environmental Degradation: Monitoring, Assessment and Treatment Technologies

Izharul Haq is currently working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He has obtained his PhD in Microbiology from CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. He is working on the theme of liquid and solid waste management through microorganisms and their toxicity evaluation. He has been honoured with the prestigious award “Young Scientist Award 2018” to recognize his scientific research. Dr. Haq has published many research and review papers in reputed national and international journals with high impact factors. He has published many book chapters in splendid international books and has also published two books with reputed international publishers. He has supervised four M. Tech students in the Environmental Engineering field. He is appointed as Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Water and Wastewater Management, Frontiers in Environmental Science. He also serves as a reviewerin many international journals published by different publishers.Ajay S. Kalamdhad is working as a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India. He has obtained his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from IIT Roorkee. His research team is working on solid waste management by microbial and vermicomposting, aerobic and anaerobic digestion of kitchen waste and industrial sludge for biogas production, and composting of water hyacinth using different composting technologies. He also serves as an editorial board member/reviewer for several national/international journals of repute. Currently, he is supervising 18 PhD and 11 M. Tech students, and more than 10 PhD and 35 M. Tech dissertations have been completed under his supervision. In addition, he has handled nine major R&D projects funded by various agencies. He has published more than 150 research papers in national and international journals of repute. Healso has published many book chapters and six international books with different national and international publishers.Siddhant Dash is currently a PhD research scholar in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His research interests include surface and sub-surface water quality monitoring studies, sediment contamination in water bodies, aquatic ecology, water quality modelling, water and wastewater treatment systems, ecological modelling and solid waste engineering. He is the recipient of the prestigious Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship Program supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the Daugherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI) and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) for the year 2019-2020. He has published ten journal papers and four book chapters to date. He is also a reviewer of many reputed international journals.

• 1. Treatment of Tannery Wastewaters Discharged from Different Chemical Operations Using Aluminium Chloride.- 2. Ranking of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Alternatives Using Analytical Network Process Technique.-  3. Novel Rotating Disc Electrolytic Reactor Based on Bipolar Electrochemistry for the Treatment of Industrial Wastewater.- 4. Assessment of Contaminant Reduction in Greywater Using Horizontal Flow Constructed Wetland for Irrigation.-  5. Spatial and Temporal Variation of Water Quality Index.- 6. Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery via Struvite Precipitation from High Strength Industrial Wastewater.- 7. Sustainable Approach for Insoluble Phosphate Recycling from Wastewater Effluents.- 8. Review on the Evaluation of Various Natural Adsorbents for the Removal and Treatment of Textile Wastewater.- 9. Employing Multivariate Statistics as a Tool for Developing Water Quality Index (WQI) for the Assessment of Water Quality of Deepor Beel, Assam, India.-  10. Degradation of Eosin Yellow Dye Solution by Using Nanosized Copper Based Heterogenous Fenton-like Catalyst in a Fluidised Bed Reactor.- 11. Efficient Diminution of Cr(VI) from Simulated Water Linking Operation Parameters in Electrocoagulation.-  12. Recycling of Dairy Wastewater by Vermifiltration Technique.-  13. Solar Photocatalysis Using N-doped TiO2 for Greywater Treatment: Optimisation of Operational Parameters.- 14. Photocatalytic Degradation of Paracetamol Using TiO2 Supported on Waste-Recovered Aluminosilcate.- 15. Yeast Waste Utilisation for the Treatment of Acidic Metallic Wastewater.-  16. Fenton’s and Hybrid Oxidation Treatment of 3,5-Dichloroaniline in Water.-  17. Statistical and GIS Based Approaches for Monitoring and Assessment of Groundwater Quality of Dimoria Block of Kamrup Metropolitan District of Assam, India.-  18. Mass Balance Study on Domestic Wastewater Treatment Using Constructed Wetlands.- 19. Trend of Water Quality of a River Flowing through Densely Populated Area of Assam, India using Water Quality Index (WQI).- 20. Application of TOPSIS – A Multi Criteria Decision Making Approach in Surface Water Quality Assessment.- 21. Proportioning of Bauxite Residue Phosphogypsum Mix for Optimal pH Neutralisation.-  22. Spatial Analysis of Ground Water Contamination in Close Vicinity to Solid Waste Landfill Sites Using GIS Techniques - A Study of Okhla Landfill Site in Delhi (A Case Study).-  23. Characterization of Pulp and Paper Mill Wastewater and its Toxicity Analysis Using Vigna Radiata.- Index.